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Some great Western Australian Cabernets

I firmly believe that south west Australia is one of the world's relatively few places where Cabernet Sauvignon can make seriously great wine – along with selected sites in Napa, Sonoma, Columbia Valley, Bolgheri, maybe Maipo, and the MeAdoc and Graves of course. Where have I missed out?

The most obvious nucleus of fine Cabernet terroir is in Willyabrup, the original centre of Margaret River on whose well-rained gravels so many of the first vineyards cluster.

Decanter magazine held what they called a Great Australian Fine Wine Encounter earlier this year and I somehow got roped in to present a...